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W. RICHARDSON. Camp-Bed;

No. 210,148 Patented N'ov.'19,1 878.

N. PEIERS,PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

State of Massachus 'I'A'I'ES PATENT OFFICE.

UNITE SON, OF BOSTON,-ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT WILLIAM RIO r. R-AMSDELL, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

TO Jon MPROVEMENT IN CAMP-BEDS.

f Letters Patent No. 210,148, dated November 19, 1878; application filed Specification formi May 6, 1878.

' d, as seen in broken lines, Fig. 2; then remove LIAM Gr. RIOHARD- the rods 0, and the bed may be folded or rolled nty of Suffolk and up. ve invented a new No braces are needed for the legs, as the in Camp-Beds, of rods 0 hold the bed in the firmest and stiifest ecification: manner. No racking from side to side is posion is to produce a sible, and the rods entering the upper sides of which when set up the cross-pieces 0 hold it tightly and prevent iable to rack when the hinges from being strained. j ires no braces at- The bed is highly adapted to camp-meeting of the bed. use, and can be put up on the bare ground, if ion in detail is dedesired, by making the plates f of the proper size and shape. 1 similar letters of As the legs and cross-pieces pitch or cant Figure 1 is a pertoward the center of the bed instead of being oved camp-bed in vertically placed, the weight of the occupant an end elevation of of the bed does not strain them, but only tical section upon serves to stiffen them and drive them firmly into the floor. rtion of a floor. b The plates f are so placed that the grooves d between the end f are at an angle with the cross pieces c, and d are legs, two bethe rods 0 are inserted into the ends of the To all whom it may co Be it known that I sort, of Boston, in t and useful Improv which thefollowing The object of thi portable folding cal r is stiff and rigid, an used, and yet whfch tached to the'legs or The nature of the scribed below.

In the drawings, i reference indicate li speotive view of no position for use. the same. Fig. 3 1 line as at, Fig. 2.

a represents a 1100 is a canvas bottom, stf barsor crosspieces 0; .ing hinged .toeach the hinges d, so that the bed is folded up. 1 with a spur, d, or s from slipping! e 6 ar? number,'- bent into t drawing, their upper} pieces from their upp; ends bent into fhorizo' old inwardly when there is no danger of the rods drawing out leg at is provided from the grooves. oint, to prevent it Having thus fully described my invention, iron rods, four in what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters ape shown in the Patent, isentering the cross- 1. Thecombination of the cross-pieces o,bent s, and their lower rods 6, and plates f, provided with the grooves ositions and enterf, all arranged substantially as and for the ing the grooved por of the plates f, purpose herein set forth. which are secured to or a. 2. The herein-described camp-bed, consist- To put up the bed, place the rods 0 in ing of the cross-pieces a, canvas 1), hinged legs their positions in the ces c and in the d, )rovided with Spurs d, rods 0, and grooved grooves f of the pl then spread the plates f f, all substantially as and for the legs at as far apart ble, and the spurs purposes above specified. d will prevent the lipping out of po- WILLIAM G. RICHARDSON. sition. Of course th s f must be firmly Witnesses: secured in the proper", ons first. HENRY W. WILLIAMS,

To take down the st fold in the legs B. W. WILLIAMS.

iece c by means of grooves farthest from the cross-pieces, so that 

